Tamagotchi Love It Feed It

Mourn
By . Carol lawason
May ,22,1997
*Adog may be man's Best friend ,but a virtual pet
can be a child worst nightmare.Children who are
nurturing the tiny tamagotchi cyberpet a popular
Japanese digital toy that went on sale in the United
States three weeks ago are discovering that virtual
death can be nearly as traumatic as the real thing
 .Christine Glickman said her son keith 9 cried hysterical
and went crazy"when his tamagotchi expered .

.S usan Gliedman describe her daughter mia also 9 ,as

"extremely sad and depressed"over the demise of her
cyberpet.

. The pet hatches from an egg on a liquid-cystal

screen the size of a watch face set in a case like an
egg, it requires continuous care feeding and

attention much as a real pet does .

*It expires if left unattended for more than
five or six hours during the day .Bandai the
manufacturer says the toy does not actually die . Instead it's
life cycle ends when it sprouts wings and the packaging says
returns to it's home planet millions of miles away.
 Example
Tamagotchi

The toy can be reset to

hatch a new creature
wings is gone forever The
Japanese version show
the pet's demise with a
gravestone and cross the
angel wings are for
american
For teachers too tamagotchi creating unpleasant
side effects joanne emery keith third grade teacher
at dalton has banned me tamagotchi from class
and so have teacher at others school in the new
York area It becomes very disruptive ms Emery
said the children were checking it ervry five
Meanwhile Bad say it's coming out
with new improved tamagotchi in
the fall it will have a pause button
Today there are much more virtual
pets developmentn but l believeb
nome has had an impact like that of
theb1996 tamagotchi design
People have learned their less
trends come and ago and innovation
are born day bay day good people.